WHITE ISLAND ERUPTION.
WRECKAGE AT TAURANGA CAST UP BY THE SEA. [Per Press AssbciATlow.] »• Tauranga, September 25. Tlie ocean beach' near Mount Maungcimi, at- the entrance to Tauranga Harbor, is strewn'for some three miles witli'debris of all descriptions, bearing unmistakable signs.’that it comes from Vv bite island.' The stuff wduld iprobab]v fill ' twenty or thirty drays. Pieces of scantling litter the shore by linn-■dre-ds, and tram sleepers showing ■marks- of rails laid to an ISin. gauge. Scores of barrels, staves and pieces ol barrel heads are scattered about. Many articles bear incrustations of sulphur, coiinectinc the mass of wreckage with the grim story of White Island. A quantity of boat wreckage was a l so found, representing two or three 'different‘classes of boats.
The scarcity of signs of house furniture “suggests the possibility that tlie greater portion of the living quarters v‘ere simply buried where they stood, and the, -men ’with them.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 34, 26 September 1914, Page 8
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152WHITE ISLAND ERUPTION. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 34, 26 September 1914, Page 8
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